Joel Dunning
This article discussed the implementation of individual WhatsApp groups at the National Center for Pectus Surgery for patients undergoing the Nuss procedure as part of the RESTORE trial, aimed at enhancing perioperative support. The initiative...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This expert consensus document addresses lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema, including surgical and endobronchial approaches for appropriately selected patients. It provides guidance on patient selection, techniques, risks, transplantation considerations,...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
This is Joel Dunning’s first look at uniportal thoracic robotic surgery. He trialed this surgical technique to see how it works. By the end, he felt he had learned a...
This is a video of thoracic surgeon Joel Dunning’s dream operating room. He was able to bring an intraoperative CT scanner called the Cios-Spin into his robotic theater so he...
Radical thymectomy is the traditional surgical management of thymomas. With the advancement of technology, thymomectomy via a minimally invasive approach is gaining popularity, although evidence supporting comparable oncological outcomes remains...
Introduction The Arrhythmia Alliance Hearts of Ghana Mission recently completed another successful mission in Ghana. While in Ghana, they perform Heart Surgery and support Pacing and Angiography. This year, they...
Dr. Joel Dunning interviews the Dr. Hazem Fallouh, winner of the 2021 Techno-College Innovation Award from the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Dr. Fallouh is a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon...
CTSNet associate editor Joel Dunning sits down with Dr. Sameh Said, associate professor at the University of Minnesota, who has contributed more than twenty-five videos to CTSNet. Dr. Said’s Ross...
In this CTSNet To Go podcast, Joel Dunnng interviews Isabelle Opitz of University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. They discuss Dr. Opitz’s career in surgery, robotic thoracic surgery, and her involvement in...
This is a nice, simple right-sided thymectomy performed by Ian Paul and proctored by Sasha Stamenkovic, which was performed at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK. It also shows the...






